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Poisoned words fall from tained lips

They rip into my flesh

And spread through my blood

Quickening my heart and turning my stomach

Upside down.

You play your games with a grin

As you lead me further into

This wicked labyrinth

With walls that can touch the sun.

You mesmerize me with eyes fogged up

From a wounded past.

You don’t mean to hurt me

Or at least I hope not…

But I hope you know I’d never hurt you

I bet you’ve heard that line before.

From my lips these words fall true.

But soon shatter once they reach the floor.

You’ve set up barricades

To guard yourself

But slowly die behind them.

I’ve been hurt before,

I’ve been hurt by you before.

But I have the fucking courage to put my own pieces back together

And try once more.

“Boys don’t cry,”

Society demands.

Fuck that!

Show something, anything.

Maybe not to the world

But maybe, just maybe to me.

I know I’m asking too much

And it’ll take time and tears will fall but

It’ll be with it, I think.

When we’re both smiling entangled in one another’s limbs

Sighing lazily just to hear one another breath.

I hear you have feelings for me

Like I have for you

Well I took my plunge

Down the cliff

And if you take yours

We could be happy with

Falling free and holding one another close.

I swear I’ll never let you go.

Because right now I hate this feeling of a

Closed coffin

When all I see is blackness around me.

Put on the armor and guide your horse

And be the knight I know you are

Find the courage within you

I will help you along the way

And when you’ve found

The missing pieces of your shattered self

I’ll be there with in that coffin

With glue and a parachute for when we

Once again face that cliff

I’ll be there standing beside you.